The two-day visit, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, signals a further consolidation of South African-Sino relations.

This is President Zuma’s second State visit to China. In 2010, he took 17 Ministers and about 300 businesspeople and signed the Beijing Declaration on a comprehensive strategic partnership with China.

“One of the major objectives of the State visit is to ensure that our relations with China remain central to realising our developmental agenda through our foreign policy, as we increase our efforts to implement the National Development Plan (NDP), cooperating in the areas of agriculture, environmental affairs, trade and industry, including finance,” said President Zuma on Tuesday before his departure.

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